How Sherry Rehman got the key diplomatic position

ISLAMABAD: It is perhaps through her diplomatic skills that Sherry Rehman — once considered a persona non grata in the Pakistan People's Party that sent her a show-cause notice for allegedly violating party discipline — has managed to get the country's top ambassadorship in the United States. 

 

Her appointment, made only a day after Husain Haqqani's resignation in the wake of the memogate scandal, came as a surprise not only in diplomatic circles but also within the PPP. A number of party members believed that Ms Rehman, who held the information offices in the government as well as the party, was no more in the good books of party co-chairman and President Asif Ali Zardari due to her decision to quit the cabinet over government's handling of the media at the climax of the movement for the restoration of deposed judges in March 2009.

Although Ms Rehman's act of sacrificing her ministry was widely hailed by civil society, lawyers and even journalists, the PPP leadership removed her from the position of the party's information secretary.

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